Freedom

How much freedom is too much? Is there or should there be a limit to it?

I realize that generally speaking the more freedom the better, but at some point if there's not a level of organization or set boundaries, entropy and Murphy's law dictate that something undesirable will eventually happen and that freedom will be abused.

You have enough freedom the very instant that your gaining of any more liberties causes the loss of liberties to another person. If less than this threshold, you have too little; if more, you have too much.

The only problem is, people tend to not like other people for a million different reasons. So being different from how whoever's in charge of a particular area wants you to be tends to cause rapid, structured, and selective oppression, usually on claimed moralistic grounds, with punishments up to and including death, at which point a person, rendered a corpse, is inert matter that does not process an abstraction such as freedom.

Mly wrote:You have enough freedom the very instant that your gaining of any more liberties causes the loss of liberties to another person. If less than this threshold, you have too little; if more, you have too much.

The only problem is, people tend to not like other people for a million different reasons. So being different from how whoever's in charge of a particular area wants you to be tends to cause rapid, structured, and selective oppression, usually on claimed moralistic grounds, with punishments up to and including death, at which point a person, rendered a corpse, is inert matter that does not process an abstraction such as freedom.

Hey, stop that kinda talk before I ban you.

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And on the pedestal these words appear:"My name is Zezima, king of kings:Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"Nothing beside remains. 'Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone and level sands stretch far away.

Mly wrote:You have enough freedom the very instant that your gaining of any more liberties causes the loss of liberties to another person. If less than this threshold, you have too little; if more, you have too much.

The only problem is, people tend to not like other people for a million different reasons. So being different from how whoever's in charge of a particular area wants you to be tends to cause rapid, structured, and selective oppression, usually on claimed moralistic grounds, with punishments up to and including death, at which point a person, rendered a corpse, is inert matter that does not process an abstraction such as freedom.